I was super upset, I know he has a wife and kid, but they were made for each other! They could have been the perfect couple if he didn't leave the show and didn't have a wife. I was waiting for them to be together. Things would be so different if Elliot was still in the show.

No, I think that it would've ruined the chemistry of their partnership. If they'd gotten together, Stabler would have gone into an overprotective mode and sometimes Benson needed to do the things she did. Plus the other thing is that Stabler was Catholic and extremely loyal to his wife. Even if he was tempted, Benson wouldn't have done anything because she knew how guilty he'd feel afterwards.